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Mitch PerryNovember 22, 2015

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Mitt Romney has said consistently that he’s not a candidate for president in 2016, and he certainly won’t be in New Hampshire next February: The deadline for all candidates to file for next winter’s presidential primary expired Friday. However, if he was, he’d be the leading candidate in the Granite State, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston […]

Mitch PerryNovember 19, 2015

A Bloomberg Politics poll released on Thursday morning shows Donald Trump continuing to lead the GOP race for president with 24 percent, followed up by Dr. Ben Carson at 20 percent. Marco Rubio continues his rise — the Florida Senator is now at 12 percent. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is fourth with 9 percent. Jeb Bush is next […]

Associated PressNovember 18, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the U.S. to send more troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State. “This is the war of our time,” the former Florida governor said at the Citadel five days after Islamic State militants attacked Paris and killed 129 people. “Radical Islamic terrorists have […]

Associated PressNovember 18, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is calling for a broad military buildup and says the U.S. armed forces have been left ill-prepared to defeat the Islamic State, blamed for the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 and wounded hundreds more. The former Florida governor is projecting himself as a potential commander in chief able […]

Mitch PerryNovember 18, 2015

Donald Trump has doubled the vote of his nearest challenger in Florida, Marco Rubio, in a new poll by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative released Wednesday. The poll also shows Hillary Clinton trails several GOP front-runners in head-to-head matchups. Trump leads the GOP field with 36 percent, followed by Rubio at 18 […]

Mitch PerryNovember 18, 2015

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Donald Trump continues to lead in New Hampshire in a new poll out on Wednesday, but Marco Rubio is rising. The poll, conducted by the MassInc Polling Group for Boston NPR station WBUR, shows Trump leading with 22 percent, doubling his advantage over Rubio and Dr. Ben Carson, who are tied for second with 11 […]

Associated PressNovember 17, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is making it clearer that his call for the U.S. refugee program to give preference to Christians fleeing Syria does not exclude Muslims. His campaign says Bush supports accepting women and children regardless of their religion and does not exclude Syrian Muslims broadly, as long as the refugees can be […]

Mitch PerryNovember 17, 2015

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A new national poll on the Republican presidential race shows that Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to dominate the field, and should either of them drop out, the other stands to benefit the most. The UMass Poll released Monday by the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows Trump leading the field with 31 percent, followed […]

Mitch PerryNovember 16, 2015

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is accusing Marco Rubio and other Republicans of descending to the bottom of the barrel in their partisan responses to the Paris terrorist attacks. “This weekend our three Democratic candidates for president held a substantive conversation about keeping our country safe that remained serious and demonstrated respect for voters,” Wasserman […]

Diane RobertsNovember 16, 2015

For reasons that do us no credit, Americans find it easy to insult the French. Perhaps we hate their freedoms – their freedom to live for something other than money, their freedom to enjoy food and sex minus 400 years of Protestant guilt. We call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys;” we sneer at John Kerry […]

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New NH GOP poll shows majority of voters still yearn for Mitt Romney

New Bloomberg poll: Donald Trump 24%, Ben Carson 20%, Marco Rubio 12%

Jeb Bush calls for U.S. ground forces to fight Islamic State

Jeb Bush using Paris attacks to pitch broad military buildup

Donald Trump up 36% to 18% over Marco Rubio in new Florida poll

Marco Rubio tied for 2nd in New Hampshire in NPR poll

Jeb Bush open to letting in properly vetted Syrian Muslims

UMass poll shows Donald Trump with 31 percent, Ben Carson 22 percent

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says GOP has gone too far in responses to Paris terrorist attacks

Diane Roberts: Stop the French-bashing; we owe them